Improved medicine



UNITED STAT Es PATENT OF icE.

LORENZO OLEA- MORENO, OF NEW YORK, N, Y.

IMPROVED MEDICINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,052. dated October 2i, 1866 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LORENZO OLEA Mo- RENO, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same.

This invention relates to a simple and effective remedy for dysentery ordiarrhea, which can be used with advantage by persons of both sexes andof every age, and which has proved very beneficial, particularly in suchtimes when the cholera threatens to become epidemic.

My compound is made of calomel, extract of opium, powder of Peruviancoca, andgum-arabio, which ingredients are mixed together in about thefollowing proportions: calomel, eighteen grains extract of opium, twograins; Peruvian-coca powder, two grains sirup of gum-arabic, twograins, from which mass, when well mixed, I produce six pills.

Mode of treatment-First, for children until seven years of age, half apill, which may,

be dissolved in a tea-spoonful of sirup; second, for a youth undertwenty-one years of age, one pill; third, for a person over twenty-oneyears of age, two pills.

First dear-The pills should be taken between 3 and 4 oclock a. m., on anempty stomach, and the patient should then remain quietly in bed forfive hours, after which he must, if over twenty-one years of age, taketwo ounces of castor-oil mixed with hot or boiled milk and a lump ofsugar; if a youth, one ounce, and if a child under seven, half an ounce.He should then rise at once and exercise within doors until the purgeoperates. A cup of hot and weak tea one hour after the purgative will bevery beneficial, and in case of vomiting the purge it should be repeatedas many as four times, in order to succeed in keeping one dose on thestomach. If by 6 oclock p. m. the purgative should not have operated, aclyster of a little milk and a spoonful of the oil should be applied,and after it has produced the desired eifect the patient should. takehis diet, once only, which should consist of a cup of well-boiled gruel,and, instead of common water, rice-water with gum-arabic.

Second day.The patient should rest, and

take his diet three timesthat is to say, at 8 a. m., at noon, and at 4p. m.a cup of wellboiled g'ruel, or of milk alone, and whenever thirsty,instead of common water, he may drink rice-water with gunrarabic. Incase of fever or tenesmus, there should be given him this very day threesemicupium baths, as hot as may be, of mallows and milk, so that he becovered from the umbilical region and halfway up the thigh. The bat-hshould last from ten to twelve minutes, and then the patient shouldreturn to bed to perspire as much as possible.

Third day-Between 3 and 4 oclock a. 1n. the pills should be taken, andthe mode of treatment on the first day should be repeated.

' Fourth day-The mode of treatment for the second day should bestrictlyfollowed.

Fifth day-By this time it is more than probable that the patient will befree from all dangerous symptoms, such as continual and bad evacuations,fever, or tenesmus if he has had it. In this case, which is verygeneral, the patient will only feel a debility or exhaustion of thestomach, and if so he will commence tak ing one of the tonic papersoncof the twelve in each package-and take one every three hours, dissolvedin half a wine-glassof cold Water, until he has taken three. This doesnot interfere with his taking his diet three times, nor his rice-waterwith powdered gum-arabic. He should continue taking said tonics for fourdays, and on the fifth day commence eating, at breakfast, sirloin orfillet of pork, haltbroiled, and at dinner a soup made either of rice,bread, or vermicelli, and thus begin, little by little, to take moresubstantial food, until he is completely restored. During this time heshould drink, instead of common water, that from which the naturalcold'has been removed by boiling or otherwise. Great care should be hadin the choice of food in order not to fatigue the stomach, and thefollowing diet should be kept for fifteen days: sirloin of pork, boiledeggs, chicken, bread soup, fillet of veal, and tea with or without milk.

Remarks-If the sickness should be of a few days duration, it is highlyprobable that with the first dose of pills, the purgative mentioned, andthe aforesaid diet of grnel for four days, the patient will be radicallycured, but if it should be chronic and inveterate, accompanied withalarming symptoms, it may require not only the first but also the secondand third doses, it being certain that with this treatment there is nodysentery nor diarrhea, however severe,-which will not be cured.

In case that after the patient is cured he should have more than'twoevacuations per day, this would be nothing more than a slightderangement of the stomach, and in that case he should continue usingthe tonic powders, taking threepapers per day, as before explained. If,on the contrary, the patient should remain costive, let him take on anempty stomach two ounces of caster-oil with milk and sugar; butit-should be borne in mind that this purge should not be taken untilfour or five days have elapsed without an evacuation.

Females.-In case of pregnancy, the treatment should only be modified bydiminishing the dose-one pill instead 'of two, and one ounce ofcastor-oil instead of two. Otherwise the mode of treatment is the same.

Notice-The diet should be none other than boiled sago with milk, or milkalone.

If, owing to any imprudence, the patient should, after being cured, havea relapse, the

DR. L. OLEA MORENO.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MGNAMARA, W. HAUFF.

